This Iceland guide is full of information and travel inspiration for first-time visitors to Iceland. Leaving Iceland is like a return to the real world, it is this beautiful. Iceland is blue icebergs, untouched, wide, and wild open space, long distances, lonely roads, snowy mountain tops, majestic glaciers, glacier lagoons and lakes, black endless beaches, boiling water and steam, the rough North Atlantic Ocean, mystic rock formations, lava fields, wildflowers and moss, cliff edges, birdlife and seals, sturdy and cute Icelandic horses, reindeers, and sheep. You find Iceland on the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Only about 366,450 people call Iceland home and you can add millions of tourists who love Iceland to that number.
There is sunshine, gale force winds, light rain, heavy rain, the howl of sideways rain, and snowstorms, and as a result, magnificently, constantly changing light. One can experience all that often all in one single day. The road will take you to natural wonder after natural wonder. In Iceland, the splendour is as endless as the daylight in summer or the darkness in winter. The wonder never stops.
Travelling through the country one can well imagine that it is a struggle to survive in these harsh conditions. There have been over 200 volcanic eruptions ever since settlers arrived in Iceland. One would surely do everything to keep it this pristine. There are hardly any power poles, no large street signs, and outside of Reykjavik sort of no traffic lights that disturb magnificent views. The whole of Iceland looks otherworldly.
